"fresh and daunting. I want to live in your lines."
"you are a tornado 🌪 poetically. I do get lost in your performance."
"Naked and pure, Grenier is a fine conjurer of sinewy imagery. the imagery is stark and even phantasmagorical"
"Balgochian's double bass accompaniment drives the music in interstellar fashion. Timeless and artistic, his technique is flawless, his expression is deep and soulful."
"Among the handful of poets - published and/or performing today - one mind that thrills is the one inside Jane's brain."
"nothing can prepare you for the poetry within that stings the senses like the hot breath of the poet."
"the poetry - spoken or read - burns with a raging in the bluest part of a flame."
"Her poetry is visceral using neologisms such as "politricks" and "deNOTcracy" to make her points"
"writes not with pen to paper, but rather with the raw nerve endings of her fingers.
"Communicating directly with the nerve endings of her hands her poetry shocks and thrills"
"like those of the poets of Jazz, the Beats and Rappers, The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron and others Balgochians' accompaniement on contrabass adds double the gut-punch to their (poetic) rage."
"The harshest imagery is tempered with brilliant word-play and even humour, albeit a tad dark
all of it comes as Balgochian's rhythm is often that of a racing heartbeat that is dangerously free."
"poetry at its finest no matter whether you experience it reading the poems in the book
or performed by artists on the sharpest edge of creativity."
"delivers a riveting account of the streets and what it means to truly walk the beat."
"when you are done performing it becomes hard for me to come back to the world."
"I love having the print in hand 📖, together with the spoken productions to slow it down and punctuate.
I imagine musical notations all through the lines now. Staccato. Crescendo. Poco a poco..."
"BANG YOUR DEAD is one of the best commentary's on assumed piety in the face of world injustice I have read for sometime."